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Aerial view of palm oil plantation on deforested land, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Strawberry farming in Doñana, Spain

The historic Paris Agreement, adopted last December, passed another milestone with a formal ratification by 31 countries at the UN in New York, on September 21.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre left) during the High-level Event on the Entry into Force of the Paris Agreement.

Citing his recognition that “we’re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release dangerous pollution into the sky,” leading national environmental organizations released a video and letter urging President Obama to withdraw the U.S. Arctic and Atlantic oceans permanently from all future oil and gas leasing, on September 20.

Tank cars, on a track adjacent to Ezra Prentice Homes in Albany's South End.

After a productive ten days of workshops, panels, high-level dialogues, voting sessions, after-hours receptions, and much more, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress 2016 came to a close last weekend. Surpassing earlier predictions, this year’s Congress attracted more than 10,000 participants from 194 countries. It was the largest environmental meeting ever held in the United States, and Earth Day Network (EDN) was there making a difference.

The Central Asia Water Future Forum and Expo is being held on September 19-22 in Almaty. Organized by the World Bank, the event brings together over 200 policy makers and practitioners from governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan, the international community of water practitioners, as well as regional learning institutions, universities, civil society and media representatives.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on 16th September announced a multi-region settlement with Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC (Syngenta) in Greensboro, N.C., for alleged violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Syngenta will pay $766,508 in civil penalties and spend $436,990 to perform a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP).

Disruptions to markets are worsening food insecurity in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan.